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  1. whc.unesco.org › en › conventionUNESCO World Heritage Centre - The World Heritage Convention

    The Convention sets out the duties of States Parties in identifying potential sites and their role in protecting and preserving them. By signing the Convention, each country pledges to conserve not only the World Heritage sites situated on its territory, but also to protect its national heritage. The States Parties are encouraged to integrate ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › World_Heritage_ConventionWorld Heritage Convention - Wikipedia

    World Heritage Convention. The World Heritage Convention, formally the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, is an international treaty signed on 23 November 1972, which created the World Heritage Sites, with the primary goals of nature conservation and the preservation and security of cultural ...

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  4. www.unesco.org › en › world-heritageWorld Heritage | UNESCO

    World Heritage. The 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage recognizes that certain places on Earth are of "outstanding universal value" and should form part of the common heritage of humankind. Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations.

  5. whc.unesco.org › en › conventiontextUNESCO World Heritage Centre - Convention Concerning the ...

    • For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as "cultural heritage": monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science;
    • For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as "natural heritage": natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view;
    • It is for each State Party to this Convention to identify and delineate the different properties situated on its territory mentioned in Articles 1 and 2 above.
    • Each State Party to this Convention recognizes that the duty of ensuring the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and transmission to future generations of the cultural and natural heritage referred to in Articles 1 and 2 and situated on its territory, belongs primarily to that State.

  6. www.unesco.org › en › articlesWorld Heritage | UNESCO

    Sep 5, 2023 · The UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage is the cornerstone of this mobilization. The celebration of its 50th anniversary is an opportunity to take stock of the actions it has made possible and to identify future challenges in order to continue transmitting heritage of universal value to future ...

  7. www.iucn.org › world-heritage-conventionWorld Heritage Convention | IUCN

    The World Heritage Convention is one of the most important global conservation instruments. Created in 1972, the primary mission of the Convention is to identify and protect the world's natural and cultural heritage considered to be of Outstanding Universal Value. It embodies a visionary idea – that some places are so important that their ...

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